Recent content by Baltipal

Well lets assume I want them to live shall we! I explained during my last thread how new I was to this & how little I knew, it was expressed to me by others here how there were NO stupid questions & to ask away. Your post smacked a little too much of sarcasm for my liking I'm afraid! :angry: I...

Hi all, now my aquarium is nice & healthy & not at all toxic! I'm wondering when my four fry should be released into the main tank from the isolation net? I have four Platy fry & the main tank houses four Tetras, two Platies & a Borneo Sucker. The fry were born about two months ago & are still...

Just one shell shocked Sucker fish that had disappeared for so long I was convinced he'd gone down the plug hole! I'm staring at the tank now but have no idea where he goes to, lol. We're tentatively considering our next addition now, not rushing into anything though.

Hi all, an update. It's been awhile but as of just now we are testing negligible for ammonia, nitites & nitrates, HURRAH!!!!!! :hyper: At one stage I thought the water changes had claimed my Plec & one of the fry but they showed up again after a few days though George the sucker seems quite...

OK another 90% coming up. We did a test this morning & although the ammonia is still at zero, the Nitrites have crept up to around 1.0. It's really difficult for me to differentiate between the shade between 0.8 & 1.6 but it's still colouring up really quickly. We're not paying too much...

Morning all. Up bright & early first job of the day is a water test. AMMONIA 0 NITRITES 0.8 NITRATES 20 Still coming to terms with the test kit & haven't got the kind of chemistry back ground as you guys(I drive a forklift truck in a warehouse!) but smaller water changes from now on, yes...

OK, we've completed hopefully the last 90% water change, perhaps 50% tomorrow. The material is from some kind of drum filter & had three of these round things, they've given us one. We have concerns however as we don't know what killed their other fish & we may be transmitting disease. Might...

The filter is from my partner's Auntie's tank which is beautifully clear despite not having the filter changed in twelve months. They only have one Black Widow Tetra,(not a Molly as stated earlier) but in good apparent health. Do I crumble up the media & just put it in the filter housing then...

I've done one 90% water change & am about to do another. At the moment we're playing with the test kit trying to get a handle on how to use it. Ammonia still reading zero but Nitrate is reading something like 0.8-1.6 but we're uncertain of the reading.

Right, I have Nutrafin test kit rather than an API but still a method of checking the water. Also have mature media, an entirely different type of filter but I hope still useful to me. Any suggestions of how I can utilise it? In the box of tricks are Nutrafin AQUA PLUS & Nutrafin Cycle, any...

No not that one, I have been there for hamster related stuff & it seems fine.

I think it was a 90ltr jobby but has only one fish for a while now.

I'm in quinton gforce so not too far away at all. There is a closer shop than the one I've mentioned but the bloke who runs it seemed rather surly & unfriendly when we popped in just after getting the tank so we didn't go in again also I think he was abit dear.

Sorry Akasha. I'm in Birmingham West Midlands of course not Alabama. I have seen the kits as low as £15 on Amazon but as I'm putting fuel in the car a tenner at a time at the moment I fear it'll still have to wait. There may be the chance of a freebee kit(make & type unknown) from a relative...

Actually looking at the paper again the nitrite level might say 2 rather than 5, it is alittle indistinct.